“Writing Techniques:

This is certainly how Burroughs's narratives work, no more, no less,

like the fatrasic montages of Philippe de Beaumanoir,

medieval satires,

lists copied from Rabelais,

the 17th-century burlesque transvestite novels (Scarron),

Gadda's macaronism,

Denis Roche's memoirs,

Michel Vachey's newsrooms,

the set of pictographic traces that Maurice Roche calls “asemic stereography”,

Joyce's sinuous polyglotism,

Pound's polycultural collages,

Cut-cut-Kodak by Cendrars boning and poetically re-kneading Gustave Lerouge's Doctor Cornelius,

the conversation-poems of Apollinaire,

the "words in the hat" of Dadaism,

the sarcastic amusements of the necessary plagiarist Lautréamont,

even that reassembly, editing, remixing of the Tradition that the Classics called “Imitation”.

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